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Michael Factor

IBM, Haifa Research Lab
IBM Fellow, Storage and Systems
Israel

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Dr. Michael Factor is an IBM Fellow with a focus on storage and systems and is the CTO for Cloud Storage Services.   Michael has presented on a range of storage topics at three of the last four OpenStack summits. His interest in cloud storage includes a deep focus on object storage (aka fixed content clouds) as well as storage support for compute clouds; this work is directed towards consumption via OpenStack. He takes a leading role in storage-related research in his lab including topics such as distributed storage systems, advanced storage networking technologies, cloud data stores, and analytics in the cloud.